The Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home is recognizing National Medal of Honor Day. The volunteer resources coordinator, ...

especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that Confederate troops clashed with Union soldiers for three days in July 1863, resulting in a decisive victory for the North.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The Sheldon Prairie Museum has many different collections -- in fact, about half the basement is dedicated to military ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...